on the darkness, part ii

A suffocating blanket of darkness, enveloping every part of me, shrouding the light and plunging my world into perpetual night-time.

And in the night-time, the fears lurk and linger.

They creep around corners with their nails clawing at the sides of my minds, trying to pull me down to the pits of their world, to pull me under

and into the ocean in it’s ever rolling and moving dance - a beautiful, transfixing movement of water, lulling you into feeling safe, to feeling loved, before overpowering you and sweeping into your lungs, sucking out your oxygen and leaving you to drown in your darkness.